I just updated to build 10565 and now I can only use Microsoft Basic Display Driver for the display, so I'm stuck at 1280x1024 at best. My Radeon HD 3850 is listed under Display adapters in Device ...

To get the best out of your computing device, you need to install drivers that provide a good quality picture and powerful graphic functions. Microsoft Display Adapter driver for Windows is one such ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.… As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, Microsoft ...

Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office. His passions include bourbon, video games and boring strangers with photos of his cat. The first and most basic of using ...

Multiple-monitor users will finally be able to open the notification center on displays that aren't their primary monitor ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...

Nearly half a century after Bill Gates first began writing software that would launch Microsoft, the company has made that code public. In early September, it placed the assembly source for its 6502 ...

Display driver failed to start; using Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead. Check Windows Update for a newer display driver. The issue could either be caused either due to a corrupted graphics ...